Wednesday, 26 February 2014

Masculine Birthday

Happy Wednesday, my friends. I'm back with another birthday card and this time it's a manly one. Masculine cards are not easy for me. Men are such difficult creatures!

Patterned papers are from First Edition's New Leaf pad.

This images are from Chocolate Baroque's Seashore Scenes. I stamped thelighthouse first and then made a mask to stamp the clouds in the background. Same technique to stamp the grassy tufts in front and around the lighthouse,using Memento Bamboo Leaves. To add colour to the clouds and sand I used TH Distress Inks Faded Jeans and Antique Linen. I coloured the lighthousewith Promarkers in various shades of greys. Finally to cut and layer I used SB Oval and Scalloped Oval dies.

I popped the image up with some foam tape, used some twine, made banner and finished with 3 black bling... manly enough, I hope. The greeting is from Chocolate Baroque's Birthday Words stamped with VersaFine Balck Onyx.

35 comments:

This is so pretty, I just love it! The papers were a perfect choice and the banners add such a nice touch. I love lighthouses for a masculine card. I've done one, but for some reason I'm always intimidated by having to color one.

This is a fantastic male card, great image too. I find male cards difficult, I think it's because there is a limited choice of embellishments sometimes but those banners you've added and the black bling look perfect.Lorraine

Your card is really stunning! What a great masculine card. Love your take on the sketch, too. Thanks for playing along with us at Clear It Out Challenges. Have a wonderful day and good luck! Hugs, Sujin

This is fabulous! Love your choice of design papers and those banners are PERFECT! Love how you carried them through to the inside! Great job! Thanks so much for joining us at The Sisterhood’s ‘ONE FOR THE BOYS’ challenge and please come back again soon! Darleneone of the 'Sistahs'The Sisterhood of CraftersDAR’S CRAFTY CREATIONS

Your card is just WONDERFUL! I so like the image, and it is a perfect male card, but I'd enjoy receiving it myself (being a big fan of light houses). Super use of our sketch. Thank you for joining our challenge this week at Tuesday Morning Sketches.

I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me at first!!lol Love how you made the clouds stick out of the die cut. Fabulous card!Thank you for sharing your creation with us and playing along with our "One for the Boys" challenge at the Sisterhood of Crafters.

I love this card. It is such a perfect male card. May I post a link to your card on my Manly Monday blog post? It's a post where I showcase masculine cards for my readers. LMK-Let me know. My email is grohcm at gmail dot com. Send a link with an email so I can find your card again. ThanksCindy